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I was a part of the Geocities team in 1998. Part of the reason a large part of the early web no longer exists is that many of these web pages were hosted for fr

I was a part of the Geocities team in 1998. Part of the reason a large part of the early web no longer exists is that many of these web pages were hosted for free by Geocities. Tragically when they were purchased by Yahoo, Yahoo decided to simply shred the early web, they decided it was not worth it to keep supporting the service and simply hit delete on a huge chunk of the content of the early web.

shmerl 9y ago
https://archive.org/web/geocities.php https://archive.org/web/geocities.php Here is an interesting example: https://archive.org/details/TheGeocitiesMidiCollectionVersion1.2 https://archive.org/details/TheGeocitiesMidiCollectionVersio...
astura 9y ago
In fairness, Yahoo ran geocities for an entire decade before shutting it down.